IPL 4 / GSTL Finals Photos and Coverage [PT1]

itsjustatank

Hong Kong9151 Posts

April 11 2012 02:43 +00

Description

I had the privilege of being able to cover the IGN Proleague Season 4 and GOMtv Team League Finals held this past weekend at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Nevada. The following is part one of my photo coverage of the event.

Photoset

itsjustatank

Hong Kong9151 Posts

April 11 2012 02:49 +00

Part 2

Acknowledgments and Afterword

Thanks to Alex Conn, David Ting, and the rest of the IPL as well as GSL staff who put together such an impressive event this past weekend. Thanks also to the progamers and event staff who humored me (and, by extension, Pholon) by letting me take a photo of them holding an "I <3 Liquipedia" sign.

I'll be at the upcoming MLG Anaheim, and I hope to see many of the same faces I was glad to meet this past weekend over there as well.

Regstata

United States207 Posts

April 11 2012 03:36 +00

Pretty pictures. That guy with the race logo tattoos is hardcore.

itsjustatank

Hong Kong9151 Posts

April 11 2012 03:37 +00

On April 11 2012 12:36 Regstata wrote:
Pretty pictures. That guy with the race logo tattoos is hardcore.

Pretty sure it was just either marker or henna, but I never asked him lol

EDIT: Confused by the fact that I took a photo of a guy with a huge Zerg logo on his face. Now I realize who you are talking about.

+ Show Spoiler [Zerg Logo Guy] +

R1CH

Netherlands10340 Posts

April 11 2012 03:52 +00

Nice photos! I messed up a lot of mine by trying to avoid having to use ISO 1600 which is really noisy on my camera. I thought I could handhold at the slow shutter speeds with IS, but subject motion blur made a lot of my shots unusable.

Ace1123

Philippines1187 Posts

April 11 2012 03:58 +00

Good Photos! Please Upload more, i like to collect images So that I can show it to my other friends and show how awesome sc2 is. :D Goodluck and i hope to see more pictures of upcoming events. cheers!

MonkSEA

Australia1227 Posts

April 11 2012 04:03 +00

The photo of squirtle after winning in the bo5..

my god

itsjustatank

Hong Kong9151 Posts

April 11 2012 04:05 +00

On April 11 2012 12:52 R1CH wrote:
Nice photos! I messed up a lot of mine by trying to avoid having to use ISO 1600 which is really noisy on my camera. I thought I could handhold at the slow shutter speeds with IS, but subject motion blur made a lot of my shots unusable.

You can invest in a monopod to steady your shots. Doesn't have to be an expensive one, unless you need a pan/tilt video head and it is way more portable than a tripod.

If it's mostly subject motion blur though, you could also resort to using a flash but at ESPORTS events that is really only OK during finals ceremonies.

Masq

Canada1792 Posts

April 11 2012 04:10 +00

looks like catspajamas lost a lot of weight, nice job bro

cheeseheadlogic

United States322 Posts

April 11 2012 04:21 +00

#10

Hey this is xOCHL, we met at the afterparty. Amazing shots btw!

cheeseheadlogic

United States322 Posts

April 11 2012 04:23 +00

#11

The dustin browder is hilarious

itsjustatank

Hong Kong9151 Posts

April 11 2012 04:50 +00

#12

On April 11 2012 13:21 IINcheezhead wrote:
Hey this is xOCHL, we met at the afterparty. Amazing shots btw!

You might have the wrong guy in mind, I was too tired to go to any afterparties this event sadly

Thanks for the compliments though!

On April 11 2012 13:23 IINcheezhead wrote:
The dustin browder is hilarious

Indeed, lol.

ELA

Denmark4608 Posts

April 11 2012 07:19 +00

#13

Awesome! Thank you itsjustatank!

Primadog

United States4411 Posts

April 11 2012 13:30 +00

#14

Well done as always, itsjustatank

lightslol

United States31 Posts

April 11 2012 14:34 +00

#15

On April 11 2012 12:36 Regstata wrote:
Pretty pictures. That guy with the race logo tattoos is hardcore.

It's a real tattoo. He's also got "WASD" and mouse buttons on his legs. Along with "1337". Sweet photos man, wish I didn't have the "Holy crap i'm taking pictures with a pro" look in the Liquipedia sign ones.